Weight loss

Well, I did my final weigh-in for the city weight loss challenge this morning. I don’t think I won the city competition but I won my own personal competition: 28.4 lbs lost (among other things). One way I know that I didn’t win is we had a guy come in yesterday that picked up some of the Keto Chow samples we donated to the city competition last week and wanted to know more as he’s doing keto. If I remember correctly, he said that he’s down like 40 lbs. Winning this competition was so much easier before everyone learned about keto =)

https://youtu.be/1VFDJGpKuTE

We did our weekly Facebook Live last night. We had a special guest: Amanda of @amandaeatsketo fame as well as many of the recipes that use Keto Chow. I have the 4K version of that video encoding right now, I’ll get it onto YouTube as soon as I can. Anyway, TTFN!

Yep, it was water weight. Either that or I somehow lost 2.3lbs in one day =) With that corrected, I’m now down 28.1lbs in the last 56 days.

We have everything lined up to make another round of Keto Chow samples and I just ordered 2350lbs of 28% fat light roast peanut flour to make more bags of Chocolate Peanut butter. While that’s being made, we’re going to try a different machine to see if we can finally get some samples of the chocolate peanut butter made but don’t hold your breath.

Funny how weight goes up and down, I had a LOT of salt yesterday in order to get my headache to go away (which it did) but that caused my weight to go up almost 3lbs, mostly water weight, since Friday. Meh, it’ll come back down again soon enough. It’s been a busy morning so far, I’ve spent most of it putting Root Beer Float on sale, answering questions, installing SSDs on laptops for new people we’ve hired, all sorts of fun.

https://youtu.be/poAt3neSTVg

We’re getting ready for Low Carb Denver that’s coming up next week! We have a new booth backdrop and other stuff coming (maybe) today with the new logo. We’re going to be driving there from Utah which will take 8 1/2 hours – I figure that’s about how long it takes to drive to the airport, wait through security, wait for the delayed airplane, fly for 45 minutes, get off the plane, and get a rental car – and this way we can load up an 8 foot truck bed with all the stuff we need.

I Looked at the results of measuring using a Zozo suit (you put on a black suit covered in dots, it takes pictures and creates a 3D model with measurements). Comparing my measurements from January 17 to February 24 it appears that I am:

• down 2.75 inches in my lower waist
• down 2.25 inches in my upper waist
• chest is down 1.5 inches
• hips are down 1.25
• left thigh is down 1 inch while my right thigs is only down 0.75 inches
• my neck is also down a half inch.

Had a dehydration headache this morning, finally got that taken care of. I think that’s the second one I’ve had since I started.

Made some amazing deviled eggs with bacon this morning, 3 dozen eggs so 6 dozen halves. Add that to the list of awesome food I made that I won’t be eating ? Looked at the results of measuring using a Zozo suit (you put on a black suit covered in dots, it takes pictures and creates a 3D model with measurements). Comparing my measurements from January 17 to February 24 it appears that I am:

• down 2.75 inches in my lower waist
• down 2.25 inches in my upper waist
• chest is down 1.5 inches
• hips are down 1.25
• left thigh is down 1 inch while my right thigs is only down 0.75 inches
• my neck is also down a half inch.

I’m on Day 51 of 100 where I’m eating ONLY Keto Chow for all 3 meals every day. Why am I doing this? A couple of reasons =)

1. I wanted to lose weight and possibly win my city’s weight loss challenge (I’m in 8th place as of last week)
2. I wanted to prove a point. I represent that Keto Chow is nutritionally complete. I think that if you’re going to claim something like that, you should have some sort of proof. Who better to have fun with such an experiment than me? To the best of my knowledge, the only similar thing that has ever been attempted in the keto world is when the founders of Nui ate their Keto Kookies for 7 days. Not complete nutrition but it was a start! =)
3. I wanted to do some intense science by changing the type of fat that I’m using in my 3 shakes every day.
   1. Starting February 15, I switched to ONLY using Heavy Cream. I’m currently doing 100ml per shake of 40% fat Darigold.
   2. March 1, I’ll switch to ONLY avocado oil for the fat in my shakes, that’ll run for 2 weeks.
   3. March 15, I’ll start using Avocado Oil with a tablespoon of MCT Oil in my shakes, that’ll run for 2 weeks.
   4. March 29, I’m planning on switching to Butter. This will require me to be doing the savory flavors of Keto Chow that are meant to be mixed and consumed hot. This will also run for 2 weeks and will be the final portion of the experiment.
   5. Every Friday I’m getting a blood test, on Wednesday r Thursday of the following week I should be getting the results of the tests. I’m checking my lipids and several other biomarkers. I’m also checking my blood ketones every day.

https://youtu.be/6ZPPCuLmjFQ

Anyhow. Today I had a “shower thought” – because I’m currently using heavy cream for my fat source, I’m essentially getting ALL of my calories from dairy right now. The protein is from milk protein isolate, the fat is from heavy cream, the little carbs I’m getting are also from the milk protein. It’s like I’m drinking milk that has had the sugar removed and vitamins and minerals added. I am subsisting on the byproducts of rangeland carbon sequestration and grass fermentation by ruminants. Cool!

Halfway! I am officially 50% done with my 100 days of eating nothing but Keto Chow. Honestly, it’s really been quite easy. It’s been a drag when I was cooking amazing Keto food for my family but other than that, I’m not bored with what I’m eating, not suffering any debilitating problems, the only real issue I’ve had the entire time was that I needed to take a probiotic when I switched to eating Keto Chow for all my meals to get things happy in my tummy. My first blood test of the experiment should be available for me to look at tomorrow afternoon. I suspect it will say that I am alive, my triglycerides are low, my HDL is normal, and my LDL will be quite high, not that LDL being high matters.

https://youtu.be/_lZ3dhHVWp4

We did our Facebook live last night, had some technical issues but it was great to hear from Taffiny. I think I have a solution for the technical issues so this won’t be a problem in the future, looks like https://www.golightstream.com/ is the answer. We have the Blender Bottles with the new Keto Chow logo on them up on the site, that does mean that the $1 Blender Bottle party is over =( We do still have some of the old ones but they’re now $6.50 each (which is still a really good price)

Oh man, we are so close to the half-way point! As of today I’m down 25.4lbs, my blood ketone levels were on the low side last night at 1.9mmol/L but today they are up to 2.3mmol/L (not that that really matters, still cool though). I’m still really enjoying the “just heavy cream” part of the current section, it’s really yummy.

https://youtu.be/7yzHtXs44g8

Spent all morning moving Miriam’s computer, we’re going to put Steve up front to handle walk-in customers now. I need to put up a bunch of recipes on the site today, especially since we’re going to be having Taffiny (the lady that made many of the recipes on our site) as a guest on the Facebook live we are doing tonight. Be sure to join us at 7:30 pm Mountain time!